Grade+three

Here is a list of subjects for grade three. Put your lessons under the appropriate subject.

=__**Math**__= [|Grade 3 Math Activities]- this is a great site with activities for all concepts that are taught in grade 3 math. [|Grade 3 Math]- great site that provides link to activities for teaching grade 3 math. They also show how each connects to the multiple intelligences. [|Interactive Math]- this is a great site that has many interactive activities for students in grade 3. [|Math Centers]- here is a list of math centers that you can do with your students.

=__**Social**__=

__**[|Module 2: Communities Around the World]**__
[|Epals]- this site helps you connect with other communities around the world. Teachers could use this in grade 3 social under the unit of Interdependence- Communities around the world. [|Exploring Norway]- this is a great lesson that gets kids to travel to Norway via the internet. Students get to be a travel agent and put together travel brochures. [|Comparing Communities]- This is a lesson that gets students to compare communities and create a class book about all the communities that they found.

__**[|Module 3: Our Changing World]**__
=__**Science**__=

__**[|Core Unit: Animals]**__
[|Animal Site]-here is a great site to help teachers teach the grade 3 core unit on animals. [|Animal lesson]- a site that has lessons for you to teach your students about animals. [|Choosing a Pet From the Zoo]- this is a lesson that gets students to pick an animal from the zoo to take home as a pet. They need to keep in mind what these animals need in order to live as well as write a letter explaining why they chose the animal that they did.

__**[|Core Unit: Earth]**__
[|The Hands On Earth]- this lesson gets students to make a dessert that represents the Earth and allows students to look at the layers.

__**[|Core Unit: The Solar System]**__
Solar System Unit- here is a themed unit that I did on the solar system. [|Paper Mache Planets]- this is a lesson that teaches students about the planets. They will be able to create a planetarium using paper mach. Each group is responsible for a different planet and will decide where about the planet should go in respect to the others when all planets are created. [|Earth vs Mars]- here is a lesson that gets students to compare and contrast Earth and Mars.

__**[|Optional Unit: Simple Machines]**__
[|Simple Machines]- lesson that teaches students about simple machines using stations for students to explore. [|Information Sheet]- information about simple machines. [|Simple Machine Links]- a great site with links to other sites with activities, lessons, resources, and information on simple machines.

__**Other Resources:**__
[|Science Units and Activities]- this site has units and activities for teachers to use when teaching grade 3 science. [|Interactive Science Activities]- this is a site that has grade 3 interactive activities for science. [|Grade 3 Science Activities]- this is a great site that provides students with activities that follow grade 3 science. Some of the activities would also work with grade 4's as it follows their curriculum as well. [|Science Links]- here is a site with links to different sites to help you teach grade 3 science. [|Science Worksheets]- here is a site with a list of science worksheets. [|Science Activities]- This is a site that provides teachers with links to great science activities for all grades.

=__**Language Arts**__=

__**Imaginative and Literary Context- Folktales (Poetry, Knights & Castles, Space, Space Crafts, Make Believe, and Magic)**__
[|Poetry for Kids]- here is a site where students can go and create poems. [|Shape Poems]- this is a site that allows students students to make shape poems in different themes.

__**Other Resources**__
[|Reading Comprehension Worksheets]- great site with reading comprehension worksheets.

=__**Visual Arts**__= =__**Dance**__=


 * Topic: Levels of movement**

Objectives: Students will explore different levels of movement. Students will be aware of self space.

Set: Late for school activity. Brainstorm things that you do when you get up in the morning before going to school. How would you move if you were running late. Get students to spread out around the gym. Start out by getting out of bed. Eating breakfast. getting dressed. brushing hair. You can let the students go their own way and act out how they get ready for school and how they act when they are late.

Development: Linking shapes activity. Students work in groups of 3. Students will choreograph a dance: beginning, middle, end (three different shapes, transitions into these shapes). Talk about some transitions, levels of these movements. Allow groups to share.

Closure: Run through the jungle activity (kind of same as set). Brainstorm things that you would find in the jungle. jump over logs duck under branches tip to past snakes

=__**Drama**__= =__**Music**__= =__**Phys.ed**__=


 * Volleyball games**

Objectives: - Students will demonstrate how to bump a volleyball properly. - Students will demonstrate that they can bump a ball and try to keep it in the air. - Students will demonstrate that they can play as a team and respect their teammates.

Materials: - Balloons - Foam Balls

Set: - Play balloon race. - Break students up into four groups. - Get them to line up on the end line. - Give one balloon (blown up) to the first person in each of the groups. - The first person starts by bumping the balloon trying to keep it in the air to the other end of the gym. Then run and carry their balloon back to their next teammate. Then you keep on going until everyone has had a turn. - Then try the same thing but use a foam ball instead. - Get two people to line up and they need to try and bump it back and forth to each other down to the other end without letting it touch the ground. (For this two groups combine and the first person from each group become partners).

Development: - Get students to go in pairs or threes if there are not enough. - Each pair will get a foam ball. - The first person will throw, the next will bump, and the last will catch. - This keeps on going and making sure that everyone keeps on switching roles.

Closure: (to help build team work) - Play Fugitive. - Ask what is a fugitive? -Set up boundaries with the pylons for the two groups. - Select someone to be the fugitive. - Everyone else is out to capture the fugitive (FBI). - Capture the fugitive by hitting them below the waist with the ball. -The fugitive can run anywhere within the boundaries. The FBI agents pass the ball to each other until they can get a good shot, they must throw it to another agent. FBI agents have to stand in their own space and not go out of their spot. Strategy involves passing the ball to someone near the fugitive who would then have a good shot. If an agent hit’s the fugitive above the waist it does not count. - Play this in two groups. - One group will play in one half of the gym and the other group will play in the other half.

Extensions: - Play a couple of times like this then change it so the agents have to bump it to the other agents. They can catch it and bump it to another agent. - If to easy but two foam balls in so it becomes harder.

[|Phys.ed Lessons]- this is a great site that provides teachers with some lessons to teach in phys.ed. Also works with grades 1 and 2. [|Phys.ed Lessons for all Grades]- great site with many lessons to teach students at all ages in phys.ed.

=__**[|Health]**__= (Click on health to get the objectives for these units from the Saskatchewan curriculum).

__**Body Systems: Immune System**__
[|Germ Game]- teaching students about germs using a game and why they need to wash their hands.

__**Preventing Injuries ( Fire, poison, electricity)**__
[|Fire Safety Unit]- here is a unit teaching students about fire safety. [|Fire Safety]- here is a lesson that introduces students to fire safety.

__**Other Resources**__
[|Worksheets on the Heart]- worksheets that teachers can print off that will help them teach students about the heart.

=__**Other Resources**__= [|Grade 3 Activities]- This is a great site that lists the core knowledge for grade 3's in language arts, science, social, music, and visual art. Also comes with activities to do with students under each subject.